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The Siege of Amirli ended in Saladin Governorate, Iraqi government and militias, the Kurdish peshmerga and Iranian forces, supported by the coalition, broke ISIL' siege of the town that had begun on June 11 as part of the Salahuddin campaign. At least 147 ISIS terrorists and Ba'athist militants were killed and 15 captured, whilst the combined ...
April 17 – The 2001 Mississippi flag referendum occurred, 64.39% of the population voted to formally adopt the 1894 U.S. state flag over the new 2001 proposed state flag design. April 19 – The multiple Tony Award-winning musical The Producers by Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan, starring Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick, opens on Broadway at ...
1751: Georgetown founded 1752 – February: First survey of Georgetown completed. [1]1784 – October 7: Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts motions “that buildings for the use of Congress be erected on the banks of the Delaware near Trenton, or of the Potomac, near Georgetown, provided a suitable district can be procured on one of the rivers as aforesaid, for a federal town”.
On September 11, 2001, 19 al-Qaeda terrorists took control of four commercial aircraft and used them as suicide weapons in a series of four coordinated acts of terrorism to strike the World Trade Center in New York City, The Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia, and an additional target in Washington, D.C.
2001 JDL plot in California: Jewish Defense League leader Irv Rubin and member Earl Krugel were charged with planning a series of bomb attacks against the Muslim Public Affairs Council in Los Angeles, the King Fahd Mosque in Culver City, and the San Clemente office of Arab-American Congressman Darrell Issa, in the wake of the September 11 attacks.
2008 – July 11, Hundreds of the Longest Walk 2 participants and supporters from the US, Canada, Mexico, Japan, Poland, and many Native American nations finish their 8000 miles walk from Alcatraz Island in San Francisco to Washington, D.C. Walkers, gathered to "protect sacred sites", "defend human rights", and "clean Mother Earth" by the ...
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On September 11, 2001, members of the Islamic terrorist group Al Qaeda hijacked and took control of the cockpits of four airliners in the United States. Two of these planes struck the two towers of the World Trade Center in New York, completely destroying that complex.